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Hello everybody!
How I've missed you ladies
Had a quick catch up. Jem sorry you've had a challenging month but hooray for ovulation at long last!! Footprints thanks for the drama recommendation!! I'll check it out. Also a new series of 'suspects' has started. I recommend that if you haven't checked it out already!!

oh and day 19! we were both so tired this morning but I said oh go on, one more can't hurt... he is v obliging :)

thanks bubs, your thoughts are all very kind.

Good news - I ovulated on day 18! woop woop. Finally got a positive stick and felt all the twinges. We DTD days 10,11,14,15,16 and 18 so I think we are covered haha. Phew!

Good luck with the preseed busta, let us know what you think.
footprints god I need the OPKs too! Would feel totally blind without them. When I finally got the positive the relief was immense
fingers crossed for you and pepper - hope we get a couple of surprise bfps.

Footprints a higher temp could be good sign! Implantation might have been later so that why you didn't get a positive yet.

I caved and did a IC this am bfn!! Put me in a mood for the day and then sat in traffic all the way to work! Wish I hadn't done one but thought maybe at 11dpo it would be there

You're still above coverline Footprints, that's promising! My temp dropped way below my coverline & the same morning AF arrived.

My fingers are crossed for you

Jem- maybe try temping? I can always tell from the reading if I've ovulated or not. Can't remember if something you have done before. Although I did get hooked but now just do a few readings here and there so I know where I am.

Cd2413dpo
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Busta-* only temped when I returned from holiday and it was decreasing to coverline (which is 36.30 for me.) Today it's gone up a bit to 36.46. Still tiny bit of brown spotting mixed with CM this morning but no sight of blood yet. Boobs hurt today at sides. Just waiting for AF to arrive.

Jem- the gynaecologist said yesterday not to opk he said it would drive me a little crazy but I tried that this month and the craziness came from not knowing when I ovulated. I took a guess from when EWCM started cramps started and stopped but not knowing for sure has def made me check calendar a million times counting this and that. I need a hobby to distract me to make me so busy that I'm not thinking it everyday. I don't work now so every day I get time to ponder dates, cm, tests etc..
I'm getting obsessed too.

Hope you ovulate soon, u may have already and have caught the egg so try not to worry. I guess u must b exhausted if you have dtd every opportunity so far!

That measurement was separate to my crl which was 25mm.

Jodders my scan says 8cm underneath where it tells me crl. I asked what it meant and it was something to do with how deep the scan is. I imagined I had a thick layer of skin and fat 😂

Jem sorry you feel so down. I have no words of wisdom but have you tried talking to DH? I find I have to be direct as men don't pick up on cues like women. I hope you manage to get everything sorted As for not ovulating yet - sometimes OPKs don't pick up the surge, they say the only sure way to know is temping. You may ovulate late this cycle - it happens! Keep positive!

Kate Sorry about your chemical. Hoping next cycle will be better for you! I think our cycles are quite similar - AF due 23rd August for me.

Footprints I love a low/no carb diet. I lost 9lbs in 2 weeks before on Atkins! I'm doing it again but it becomes so boring after a while. Meat, salad, veg - repeat. Get's very blah - but it definitely works!
Your signs sounded so promising! Pink CM, I thought implantation straight away - are you temping?

I have given in & got some pre-seed - I'm hoping it'll help as I'm sure I don't have any fertile CM. Given DP the DTD schedule & my game face is on for fertile week which starts on Friday. Come on cycle 11, lucky cycle 11

All sounds a mystery! I'm making note to check this when it happens at scan.

My friends didn't get morning sickness just every now and then after rich food they felt a bit peaky so I think you might be one of the lucky ones parney & *pS.
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Cd2312dpo but think will be Cd1by the end of the day!

Pink spotting stopped on Sunday (10dpo) and brown spotting started today. AF cramps are here..So was totally fooled this month  back to the start...

Ovulating far too early is my understanding. One cycle left of clomid.. And just been given another box of 3 cycles from gynaecologist today at my appointment. He's happy with results and says all is working but wants to give the ovaries extra oomph! Says every other day dtd, and around ovulation every day for 3 days. Says early ovulation shouldn't make a difference and that shorter cycles are better than long ones. So on we go to next cycle.... Staying positive even though I'm disappointed it didn't happen this cycle. Bottle of prosecco is in the fridge for tonight awaiting full flow AF.

7.6cm! That could be uterus size maybe? Or scaled size of the image taken? Wouldn't a foetus that big be at least 13/14 weeks? Didn't you have your coil out about then? Did you have a period after that?

See I think I'm further on than they dated me again. At 9 weeks o seen a full baby moving and waving and kicking. The only measurement I can see on my scan pic is 7.6cm. That can't be the CRL though although that is what they were measuring.

Ok thanks everyone!

Good luck to everyone else x

Crown to rump is head to bum as baby is all curled up.

Right not tight

Crl is crown to rump length! So your baby is 1.3cm ☺️ Sounds tight for your dates I'd say? Mine was 25mm at 9 weeks.

At nine weeks for me yolk sac 'present'. I just took it to mean that there was evidence it had been there or still was! But the placenta was visible so I don't think it meant too much at that stage!
Delighted all is well! No sickness is worrying but I had none at all and nobody has been alarmed by this at any appointment! Hoping these next few weeks speed by for you!

Hurray PS!! Early pregnancy can be worrying try to enjoy the lack of sickness and let the good news settle in!

No idea what that means though!!

CD 12 no fertile cm yet. Gonna start the pre-seed Thursday, methinks, just to see how it works!

Very tired but still relatively sickness free yes. No sickness is makes me worry!! I will try my best to relax a bit now.

Crl measured at 13mm
And it says yolk sac demonstrated
What does this mean?

Thrilled for you PS.

Great news PS! Try to relax now. Easier said than done though. Are you still sickness free?

It was all good news! Said everything looked normal and bleeding just was probably from burrowing in.
Still a few weeks to go until into the safer weeks but daring to feel slightly more positive! Here is our little blob, can't even work out where its head is!!

Parney - so nice to hear from you. Glad all is going well. Can't believe it's gone so fast and you're almost half way. Good thing that you haven't needed much maternity wear yet, although it's when you do you won't get much wear out of them.

Jem-hope u ovulate soon. Lots of swimmers ready when u do.

Jodders- sorry that you still feel so sick, glad you are not still in hospital. Time is flying for you too!

Ps- glad spotting stopped and looking forward to see your scan pic. Hope all goes well and you're able to enjoy your pregnancy.

Pepper- fingers crossed for your BFP!

Kate- good plan of action. Preseed was brill.

Hope everyone else ok, hi to you all X

Hi girls. Not doing too good, feeling so low and anxious about ttc. DH went out last night drinking with a friend and I got so upset and stressed. We should have been DTD , I think my body is still trying to ovulate. I felt like he doesn't care - doesn't think twice about missing DTD or alcohol. I couldn't stop crying last night, sat up watching David Attenbrough with the cat and just sobbing. Not good.

My cycles are always like clockwork, I just can't understand why I haven't seen a single positive OPK and I'm day 18. My cervix is still soft and open like I'm still fertile and still got quite a bit of cm - so I can only assume I haven't yet ovulated.

I think all the stress is delaying it but I genuinely don't know what to do to stop it